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The government is currently renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU, ahead of a referendum on the UK’s membership to be held by the end of 2017. In November, the prime minister set out his reform priorities in a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk...

Most Americans see privacy issues in commercial settings as contingent and context-dependent. A new Pew Research Center study based on a survey of 461 U.S. adults and nine online focus groups of 80 people finds that there are a variety of circumstances under which many Americans would share personal information or permit surveillance in return for getting something of perceived value. For instance, a majority ... <snip>

When the IWA conducted its 2008 audit it was clear that media deficiencies in Wales were, on any objective test, significantly worse than in either of the two other devolved territories, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The only exception to this was television provision in the Welsh language...

Seven years later, although, with some exceptions, the availability ... <snip>

The newly-created Competition and Markets Authority has made significant progress in improving how the UK’s competition regime works, and it is now more coherent than before...Business awareness of competition law, however, is low and while it has improved the robustness of its enforcement casework, the regime has so far not produced a substantial flow of enforcement ... <snip>

The European Commission and the United States have agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows: the EU-US Privacy Shield...

The EU-US Privacy Shield reflects the requirements set out by the European Court of Justice in its ruling on 6 October 2015, which declared the old Safe Harbour framework invalid. The new arrangement will provide stronger obligations on ... <snip>

By 2030 one and a half million people – almost as many as currently live in Birmingham – will be added to the 8.5 million living here in London. Accommodating that growth in a way that allows the city and its people to thrive and prosper will be extraordinarily challenging. Only if we think long term and plan ahead will we ... <snip>

Survival rates for cancer patients in England have generally been worse than those in other high-income countries in Europe, mainly because patients in England tend to be diagnosed later and have poorer access to treatment. The government set up the Cancer Drugs Fund in 2010 to improve access to cancer drugs that would not otherwise be routinely available on the ... <snip>

When defending an organization against cyberattacks, cybersecurity professionals are faced with the dilemma of selecting from a large set of cybersecurity defensive measures while operating with a limited set of resources with which to employ the measures. Engaging in this selection process is not easy and can be overwhelming. Furthermore, the challenge is exacerbated by the fact that many cybersecurity ... <snip>

Keeping the unity of the European Union is the biggest challenge for all of us and so it is the key objective of my mandate. It is in this spirit that I put forward a proposal for a new settlement of the United Kingdom within the EU. To my mind it goes really far in addressing all the concerns raised by Prime Minister Cameron. The line I did not cross, however, were ... <snip>

This report looks at where London’s housing and infrastructure growth might take place and how it can be balanced with ensuring a high quality of life for all residents.In 2016, London will have a new Mayor who will be a central player in determining how the capital will grow - and where the expected one million new Londoners will live in the coming ten years...

Digital technology has empowered new voices, made the world more accessible, and increased the speed of almost every decision we make as businesses, communities, and individuals. Much of this convenience is powered by lines of code that rapidly execute instructions based on rules set by programmers (or, in the case of machine learning, generated from statistical ... <snip>

The Innovation Union was launched in 2010 as a flagship initiative of the Europe 2020 strategy to build on Europe’s strengths and address its weaknesses with respect to innovation and thereby make Europe more competitive in times of budgetary constraints, demographic change and increased global competition.

Many sectors are dependent on their IP rights (e.g. pharmaceuticals, creative industries, consumer brands and technology companies), IP is not confined to niche areas, but touches almost every part of the economy. This means that managing and protecting a business’ IP proactively will need to become an automatic element ... <snip>

Source: Congressional Research Service via Federation of American Scientists

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The laws that determine who pays whom in the digital world were written, by and large, at a time when music was primarily performed via radio broadcasts or distributed through physical media (such as sheet music and phonograph records), and when each of these forms of music delivery represented a distinct channel with unique ... <snip>

In April 2015, the .eu Top-Level Domain (TLD) celebrated its 9th anniversary. Over the past nine years, the .eu country code TLD profiled itself as an innovative and modern extension, very much able to catch up both with the TLDs which have been in the domain environment since the late nineties and to compete with the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) that have been introduced in ... <snip>

5G refers to a future, fifth generation of mobile network telecommunications technologies. While research on the technical characteristics and potential uses of 5G is ongoing, 5G is expected to represent a major leap forward from current telecommunications technologies, including revolutionary changes in radio interfaces and spectrum use. On the basis of current trends ... <snip>

Zika virus is a flavivirus transmitted primarily by several species of Aedes mosquitoes (the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses). Prior to 2015, Zika virus outbreaks had been identified in areas of Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. In May 2015, Zika virus appeared in Brazil. This was the ... <snip>

A growing number of thought leaders have expressed concerns over the past two years that the Internet is in some danger of splintering or breaking up into loosely coupled islands of connectivity. A number of potentially troubling trends driven by technological developments, government policies and commercial practices have been rippling across the Internet’s layers, from ... <snip>